Classical Notes

Classical Notes: Cellissimo arrives in Galway bigger and better

Cellissimo has become a major festival that reaches out in all directions ‘From Galway to the World’ to display the talents of so many great musicians

Naomi Berrill, who is from Galway and based in Italy, is one of many cello legends coming to this year’s Cellissimo in Galway. Picture: Eduardo De Lille

The Covid epidemic did not kill off Galway’s music splurge for its ill-fated celebration as European City of Culture in 2020. Not altogether, anyway. It salvaged some of its splendid and original ideas and has used them since then in various ways. Not the least of these is the concept of Cellissimo, an extravagant celebration of an instrument that has been called ‘’the soul at the heart of classical music’’.

Cellissimo did not go away, ...